Gli splash screen animati sono la rivoluzione lanciata con Android 12 per rendere le app più divertenti: su Drive si potrà iniziare a utilizzarli e provarli
Veronica Nicosia Giornalista scientifico
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L’avvio delle applicazioni di Android 12 sarà un’esperienza divertente: è questa l’idea di Google dietro agli splash screen animati introdotti nell’ultima versione del suo sistema operativo. La prima applicazione a poter godere di tale nuova particolarità è una delle pietre fondanti di Mountain View: Drive. Here’s how it works.
You just have to tap on an app’s icon to trigger a characteristic effect, before you can start using it in the more traditional way. These are the animated splash screens, a peculiar element of Android 12 that will characterize the launch of programs. The opening features will be common to all of them: first, the screen will expand from the grid point where the reference image is located until it fills the four corners of the screen; then (and if not used for a longer or shorter period), an icon will become the protagonist of the splash screen, occupying the central section. The animation, made by the developers, can last an arbitrary amount of time although Google recommends staying under 1,000 milliseconds.
Android 12, what the animated Drive splash screen looks like
As announced, the first application to rely on this particular effect in Android 12 was Drive, the cloud space that allows registered users to store files so they can be downloaded from any device connected to the network. The transition is very reminiscent of what we saw in Big G’s example from a few months ago, shown alongside the Splash Screen API announcement, for the occasion performed on Gmail’s iconic envelope.
What about Drive, however, the top animation opens with the icon colored in shades of gray. In just a few moments, from the outside to the inside, each section is filled with the color we’ve normally come to know, namely Google’s traditional nuances that include green, red, blue and yellow.
Animated splash screens, when can we see them?
The updated version of Drive, namely number 2.21.222.06.40, has already been released a few hours ago. All Android 12 users who have made the update can already see with their own eyes one of the first examples of animation that will characterize apps in the near future.
Although they have long had the tools to add these nice effects to apps, it’s only with Android 12 that developers have been given access to simpler methodologies for their creation, as part of the standardization process wanted by Google to start apps on its operating system.